Belinda Smith
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2,583 appearances
26 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Sep
Belinda Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, Nelson was, by all accounts, a brilliant tactician.
His strategies were bold, unconventional, non-traditional, and they took his enemies by surprise.
But Nelson did meet his end at the age of 47 when he was shot by a French sniper during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
The British Navy won that battle.
It was perhaps the nation's greatest naval victory, crushing Napoleon's plans to invade Britain.
But Nelson did not survive.
His body was put in a barrel of brandy and brought back to England, and he's been recognised as a national hero ever since.
And Nelson wrote a lot of letters.
We're talking more than 5,000 that we know of.
How he found the time between winning so-called unwinnable battles, and especially after he had to teach himself how to write with his left hand after losing his right arm at the age of 38, it really is something.
Aside from all these letters that he wrote, after he died in 1805, did he leave lots of stuff behind?
He left his possessions and his estate in a degree of chaos.
And that's partly because his life in general was in a degree of chaos and not without scandal.
Nelson didn't have any children with his wife, but he did have one with his mistress, Emma Hamilton, who was married to another bloke as well.
Nelson's vast trove of letters and other documents helped people like Martin figure out if a hat or a medal or a wavy bladed sword did indeed once belong to the man, which would make it very valuable to collectors.
Martin's been pulling on these threads for decades, so he was the perfect person for Adam to email when it came to figuring out if his Chris sword was a genuine Nelson artefact.
But what really convinced Martin was when Adam brought the sword over to England.
So, for instance, the label refers to Lord Nelson, which helps narrow down the time at which the Chris sword was given.
Nelson didn't become Lord Nelson until 1798, and he died in 1805, so Martin suspects it was probably gifted around 1802 to 1803.
and a Moro Chris sword being an appropriate gift to someone like Nelson?
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